12-13-2013:NEC Friday Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Doe Kumsa
Title: Sulfuric acid medium is a viable tool to explore the underlying principles governing the Shannon safe limit for neural tissues."
The primary aim of our project is to understand the electrochemistry of neural stimulating electrodes as charge injection is increased from safe values to unsafe values. Recognizing the fact that the same reactants and reactions are being studied whether we use either sulfuric acid or an animal will allow for the use of conductive sulfuric acid as a medium. Our use of sulfuric acid has helped us establish a protocol relevant for experiments with animal implanted electrodes.

7-29-2011:NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: James Liao
Title: "Towards a Simulation of a Brain-Computer-Interface for Control of an Arm Prosthesis in Individuals with High Tetraplegia"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Kirsch

12-09-2010: Congratulations Alicia Jensen for the American Epilepsy Young Investigator Award for her contribution entitled: “Mechanisms of Suppression of axonal firing with High Frequency Stimulation”. Advisor: DM Durand

Congratulations to Erin Lavik for $2.3M New Innovator Grant from NIHRead more...

6-7-2010: News and extend congratulations to Dominique Durand who was recently elected as the North American representative to the IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
Well done Dominique!

5-18-2010: Jeff Capadona, a principal investigator in the Advanced Platform Technology Center at the Louis Stokes Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, has received a Merit Review Award for from the VA for his project entitled "Novel modalities for assessing the cortical tissue – electrode interface”

3-31-09 Jeff Hawkins: Ford Distinguished Lecture. Wolstein @4:30 Hierarchical Temporal Memory: How a theory of the neocortex may lead to truly intelligent machines. Click here for more information and here for stream live video.

9-15-2007 Undergraduate research award
Yanina Grinberg, a BS/MS student in the NEC working with Ken Gustafson receives the 2007 BMES undergraduate student design and research award. Clear HERE for more information